Director and cinematographer of Soviet documentaries, actor.
People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR (1965).
People's Artist of the USSR (1967).
Hero of Socialist Labor (1990).
He started working in cinema in 1931 as an actor at the Uzbekgoskino film studio.
Since 1933 - in the Tashkent newsreel studio. Filmed the opening of Tamerlane's tomb in 1941.
During the Great Patriotic War, front-line cameraman.
